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1 June 2017 An Evaluation of Pre-emergence Metam-Potassium and S-metolachlor for Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) Management in Sweetpotato
Stephen L. Meyers, Mark W. Shankle
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Abstract

Field studies were conducted in 2014 and 2015 at Pontotoc, MS to evaluate combinations of metam-potassium and S-metolachlor for yellow nutsedge control and sweetpotato crop response. Treatments consisted of a factorial of five metam-potassium rates (0, 149, 261, 372, and 484 kg ha-1) by three S-metolachlor rates (0, 0.80, and 1.34 kg ha-1). Additionally, a hand-weeded check was included for comparison. Crop injury was limited to ≤4% at 4 weeks after transplanting (WAP) and was transient. At 2 WAP yellow nutsedge control was 58, 74, and 76% in plots treated with S-metolachlor at 0, 0.80, and 1.34 kg ha-1, respectively. Nutsedge control in all treatments decreased from 2 to 15 WAP. At 15 WAP, S-metolachlor at 0, 0.80, and 1.34 kg ha-1 provided 35, 68, and 70% yellow nutsedge control, respectively. Metam-potassium rate did not influence yellow nutsedge control after transplanting. Sweetpotato yields in the hand-weeded check were 4,640; 22,180; 7,180; 34,000; and 1,360 kg ha-1 for jumbo, no. 1, canner, marketable, and cull grades, respectively. S-metolachlor applied at either 0.80 or 1.34 kg ha -1 provided jumbo, no. 1, and marketable sweetpotato yields equivalent to the hand-weeded check. Canner and cull yields were not influenced by S-metolachlor rate. Metam-potassium rates used in the present study resulted in yields equal to or greater than the hand-weeded check.

Nomenclature: Metam-potassium; S-metolachlor; yellow nutsedge, Cyperus esculentus L.; sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas L. Lam.

© Weed Science Society of America, 2017
Stephen L. Meyers and Mark W. Shankle "An Evaluation of Pre-emergence Metam-Potassium and S-metolachlor for Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus) Management in Sweetpotato," Weed Technology 31(3), 436-440, (1 June 2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2016.23
Received: 22 September 2016; Accepted: 1 November 2016; Published: 1 June 2017
KEYWORDS
crop tolerance
herbicide rate
soil fumigation
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